Light Rolls

Ingredients

• One pint of whey
• Flour
• Four tablespoonful of lard
• One teaspoonful of sugar
• One egg
• Salt
• Yeast (either yeast cake of compressed)

Directions

1. Boil one pint of whey.
2. Pour boiled whey onto a half tablespoonful of flour.
3. Let it stand until cool and then stir in yeast to preference.
4. Then add flour sufficient to have it form a stiffened batter- proceed to beat for about thirty minutes.
5. Allow for about four hours for the batter to rise. 
6. Then sift enough flour to coat the batter and subsequently coat your risen batter with it.
7. Next add four tablespoonsful of lard, one teaspoonful of sugar, one egg, and salt to taste.
8. Make out batter into rolls and once they've sufficiently risen- bake in oven to preference.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Aidan Hartnett
Louisiana Anthology
September 26, 2021

Light Rolls

Ingredients

• One pint of whey
• Flour
• Four tablespoonful of lard
• One teaspoonful of sugar
• One egg
• Salt
• Yeast (either yeast cake of compressed)

Directions

1. Boil one pint of whey.
2. Pour boiled whey onto a half tablespoonful of flour.
3. Let it stand until cool and then stir in yeast to preference.
4. Then add flour sufficient to have it form a stiffened batter- proceed to beat for about thirty minutes.
5. Allow for about four hours for the batter to rise. 
6. Then sift enough flour to coat the batter and subsequently coat your risen batter with it.
7. Next add four tablespoonsful of lard, one teaspoonful of sugar, one egg, and salt to taste.
8. Make out batter into rolls and once they've sufficiently risen- bake in oven to preference.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Aidan Hartnett
Louisiana Anthology
September 26, 2021

Pink Champagne Cake

 

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour
• One tablespoon being powder
• One half teaspoon salt
• 6 egg whites
• One cup pink champagne
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 cups sugar
• One cup unsalted butter
• Small amount of pink food color
• 4 sticks butter
• 12 cups powdered sugar
• 4 teaspoons vanilla
• One teaspoon salt
• One half cup pink champagne
• Pink coloring gel

Directions

Cake

1. In a medium sized bowl swish together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. In another bowl combine the egg whites, champagne, vanilla, and vegetable oil.
3. Whisk until blended and set aside.
4. In the bowl of your mixer, cream the butter and sugar 3-5 minutes.
5. When it is light and fluffy add approximately 1/3 of the dry ingredients and mix until blended.
6. Then add one half of the liquid ingredients until blended.
7. Continue alternating dry and wet ingredients. Begin and end with dry ingredients (3 additions of dry and 2 of wet).
8. Add the pink color at any time during the mixing of the dry and wet ingredients.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour 3 (8 inch) pans. 
10. Pour into prepared pans and bake 25-30 minutes. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
11. Cool in baking pans 10 minutes then turn out.

Pink Champagne Butter Cream.

1. Cream the softened butter until smooth and lightened in color.
2. Blend in the salt and vanilla.
3. Gradually add the powdered sugar with the pink Champagne until the powdered sugar is incorporated.
4. Beat at medium speed 3-4 minutes the texture will become very smooth.
5. If you are tinting the entire batch of butter cream light pink, you can add a very small amount while it is mixing.
6. This recipe makes approximately 8 cups of frosting.

Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021

Pink Champagne Cake

 

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour
• One tablespoon being powder
• One half teaspoon salt
• 6 egg whites
• One cup pink champagne
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 cups sugar
• One cup unsalted butter
• Small amount of pink food color
• 4 sticks butter
• 12 cups powdered sugar
• 4 teaspoons vanilla
• One teaspoon salt
• One half cup pink champagne
• Pink coloring gel

Directions

Cake

1. In a medium sized bowl swish together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. In another bowl combine the egg whites, champagne, vanilla, and vegetable oil.
3. Whisk until blended and set aside.
4. In the bowl of your mixer, cream the butter and sugar 3-5 minutes.
5. When it is light and fluffy add approximately 1/3 of the dry ingredients and mix until blended.
6. Then add one half of the liquid ingredients until blended.
7. Continue alternating dry and wet ingredients. Begin and end with dry ingredients (3 additions of dry and 2 of wet).
8. Add the pink color at any time during the mixing of the dry and wet ingredients.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour 3 (8 inch) pans. 
10. Pour into prepared pans and bake 25-30 minutes. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
11. Cool in baking pans 10 minutes then turn out.

Pink Champagne Butter Cream.

1. Cream the softened butter until smooth and lightened in color.
2. Blend in the salt and vanilla.
3. Gradually add the powdered sugar with the pink Champagne until the powdered sugar is incorporated.
4. Beat at medium speed 3-4 minutes the texture will become very smooth.
5. If you are tinting the entire batch of butter cream light pink, you can add a very small amount while it is mixing.
6. This recipe makes approximately 8 cups of frosting.

Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021

Stuffed Tomatoes

 

Ingredients

• 4 large tomatoes
• Parsley
• Onions
• Salt
• Pepper
• One teaspoon of butter
• 3 tablespoons corn
• 3 tablespoons bread crumbs

Directions

1. Take tomatoes cut top off and use the inside, copped fine with parsley, onions, salt, and pepper.
2. Mix with this butter, corn, and bread crumbs.
3. Then replace in tomato skins and bake.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021

Stuffed Tomatoes

 

Ingredients

• 4 large tomatoes
• Parsley
• Onions
• Salt
• Pepper
• One teaspoon of butter
• 3 tablespoons corn
• 3 tablespoons bread crumbs

Directions

1. Take tomatoes cut top off and use the inside, copped fine with parsley, onions, salt, and pepper.
2. Mix with this butter, corn, and bread crumbs.
3. Then replace in tomato skins and bake.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021

Rice Dressing with Oysters

 

Ingredients

• Three cups rice
• Two cups water
• Oner large spoon of lard
• One small onion
• One tablespoon pulverized sage
• One spoon salt
• One teaspoon pepper
• 3 dozen oysters
• 2 eggs
• One spoon butter

Directions

1. Put rice in water over a quick fire.
2. Let the mixture come to a good boil.
3. Cover closely and cook slow for half an hour.
4. Put lard in pan, add small onion cut fine, pulverized sage, salt, and pepper.
5. Add three oysters.
6. Cook for 10 minutes.
7. Turn rice out in a bowl, beat eggs, and butter into it well, add oysters and gravy, and enough juice from the oysters to make it soft.
8. This is enough to dress a medium sized turkey.
9. The oysters can be omitted if desired.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Samantha Hillman
Louisiana Anthology
September 20, 2021